A System Apart

The moments with you will always live on in the hearts and minds of those you touched. Although some of us are struck bare with grief we will always carry you with us. I hope your beautiful and fragile soul will Finally be allowed to rest. You were to us all a beloved friend and we will cherish your memory with loving grace. I miss you <3 (Taken with instagram)

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tanze, tanzen.

“I put forward at once — lest I break with my style, which is affirmative and deals with contradiction and criticism only as a means, only involuntarily — the three tasks for which educators are required. One must learn to see, one must learn to think, one must learn to speak and write: the goal in all three is a noble culture. Learning to see — accustoming the eye to calmness, to patience, to letting things come up to it; postponing judgment, learning to go around and grasp each individual case from all sides. That is the first preliminary schooling for spirituality: not to react at once to a stimulus, but to gain control of all the inhibiting, excluding instincts. Learning to see, as I understand it, is almost what, unphilosophically speaking, is called a strong will: the essential feature is precisely not to “will” — to be able to suspend decision. All unspirituality, all vulgar commonness, depend on the inability to resist a stimulus: one must react, one follows every impulse. In many cases, such a compulsion is already pathology, decline, a symptom of exhaustion — almost everything that unphilosophical crudity designates with the word “vice” is merely this physiological inability not to react. A practical application of having learned to see: as a learner, one will have become altogether slow, mistrustful, recalcitrant. One will let strange, new things of every kind come up to oneself, inspecting them with hostile calm and withdrawing one’s hand. To have all doors standing open, to lie servilely on one’s stomach before every little fact, always to be prepared for the leap of putting oneself into the place of, or of plunging into, others and other things — in short, the famous modern “objectivity” — is bad taste, is ignoble par excellence.

For one cannot subtract dancing in every form from a noble education — to be able to dance with one’s feet, with concepts, with words: need I still add that one must be able to dance with the pen too — that one must learn to write?”

The Above quote was taken from Nietzsche’s “Twilight of the Idols”, its still as valid today as it was back in the dark days.

Jan 23

The descension of Hakan the great.

The ascension of Håkan Juholt to party leader of the Swedish Socialist party, the Social Democrats, was meteoric. None of us knew of this relative insider and none of us, knew what to expect.. if anything.

Like all things velocity related, there’s a a law of nature that comes into play when the meteor hits the atmosphere of a planet. Let’s call it friction.

Håkan, a very friendly looking person and no doubt a good man to those he calls his friends, resigned the other day from his post, because he believes in the social democrats, he said.

The followup to all this, were his ramblings in the media, on all things related to his person and position, but most of all his shenanigans with certain economic issues he had take advantage of.

Now why i’m posting this is because i’ve been reading too many posts, facebook reblogs, where persons of interest are accusing the media of being slanted, the media of being against a left coalition in majority and that the opposition is rumored to be using ufo technology from the crash-landing at Kebnekaise to mind bend the former leftist voters to vote bourgeoisie.
People, there is no mustache twirling mad overlord behind the curtain, its more circumstantial than that.

Now if we take a closer look at Juholts behaviour in the media, we see a man who’s utterly devoid of any form of media training, a man who believes its his role to solve issues stemming from his own faults.
But we also see, just a man.

The greatest fault of any leader is not to listen to his employees, the lesser evil of a leader is to ignore criticism.
I actually found him wanting due to this, but he rose up and abdicated his position, because, he believed in something greater than himself.

That floored me, What Sweden has been lacking for decades, is a leader with a vision. Sweden needs someone to take the reins and form a solid vision of how to take the country forward.

For anyone who is willing to take the reins for the Social Democrats, there’s a need to reform the party from within, renew the organisation and modernise the party. that is no small endeavor, and it is not. for the meek.
Whoever makes that happen, and I hope it is Johanna Graf, is the person that will make me cast my vote in favor of the party.

hat tip to Deeped for making me notice Johannas post that catalysed this post in turn.

Dec 23

loose canon; the swedish compromise

Reading forums and talking to .. well lets call them “passionate” consumers of fiction, be it tv-series, comics or books spanning entire forests, you often find them touting and challenging the canonicity of the writer/creators own “universe” of fiction.

This often due to cross-franchise entertainment like games, comics and movies made out of, say, a series of tu.. oh sorry, books.
Now this is actually fine, everyone’s entitled to their own opinions, me, I like to enjoy what I consume via the various mediums.

Take one of my favorite examples, Star Wars, early on it was a hopshod ragtaggled bunched together impression of various sources — Lucas early script was a loose impression based on Akira Kurozawas “The hidden fortress” — but today it spans a multi-billion franchise consisting of books, comics, the movies, tv-series and games.
but what most fanboys discuss is the canon and its redheaded stepdaughter “continuity” — who’s a real bitch — the inherent facts as they’ve interpreted it via one of the above sources.
Now forums on the net are a place where fanboys bunch together to continously one up eachother and earn a badge of honour for being “Correct” regarding the topic of discussion, usually it follows a pattern somewhat like this:

User A asks a question, receives a reply, someone corrects the reply, a flamewar erupts, people are rude to one another, someone insults someone’s mom, threats are made, moderators step in to calm it down, Strawmen A & B start their incessant tripe and Power User A corrects everyone, thus earning credibility.

Needless to say, its something forumgoers feel insane amounts of passion for, but normal people feel, well. indifferent towards.
it’s essentially one of those “cant see the forests due to all the tree’s” sort of deals, to me anyway.

But the way it works in a franchise license like the Star Wars franchise, is that the span is through various mediums and corporations, in that there’s even an inverted pyramid of classifications involved, relating to just canon, and more often than not this is not regulated by a writer or a creator, but by an Intellectual Property Rights Lawyer, let’s just refer to that guy as the “badguy” henceforth.
So this badguy has created a set of classes pertaining to which part of the published information is the primary source for all the lore relating to the story.
This to keep a firm grip around continuitys throat as it relates to, the canonicity of the story.

A more hands on description of this classification is a set of classes, lets call name them A all the way to D.
A - is the “do what the creator demands of us puny plebs” (the filth called pre-trilogy movies)

B - is what the Creator himself creates. i.e the mainline (The Star Wars trilogy)

C - is edge stuff like comics, books and RPG’s of the Star Wars franchise, products that contain /some/ canon that the Lucas does not pay much attention to — if at all —

D - basically, this is stuff that is not an essential part of the storyline and retains some inklings of The Canon, stuff like Games.

That’s the basics the law that people like the badguy spill forth, at least in how it relates to the Star Wars franchise.

Firefly, Star Trek and B5 has a similar dress up from what I understand, or well. not Star Trek, since Gene Roddenberry is basically the reason to why the term “Retcon” exists, but the essentials are the same.

But its even more convoluted in our modern time, not only is there a badguy, but more often than not it’s a team of them, led by what’s called an “Intellectual Property Rights Manager” who sets direction.

Dec 15

I know i’ve posted this here and there for the better part of two months, but in august I reached one of my goals. Now with 5 more kilos to eighty i’ve started the process of tweaking my musculature through hard training.

I’ll be refraining from weightlifting this time around ‘cept for those barbell weight things, of which I’m currently hefting 30kg on per arm.

This time, it’ll all be about getting in shape and tweaked musculature, i’ve had it with being the slow brute ;)